VALLEY CENTER -- His team had just scored 70 points to cap an
unbeaten regular season, and his star running back went over 2,000
yards rushing for the year.

Still, Valley Center High football coach Rob Gilster isn't quite
sure what he might have under his control.

"I don't know how good this team is, but we're good right now,"
Gilster said Friday night after his Jaguars laid a 70-0 thumping on
Orange Glen in the Valley League finale for both teams. "We've got
to play our game, and it can be a tough deal in a situation like
this.

"It can be easy for the kids to get complacent, but our guys
came out and played hard tonight."

Valley Center will take a 10-0 record (4-0 in league) into the
CIF San Diego Section Division IV playoffs. The Valley League
champions are expected to be the No. 1 seed for their division, and
as one of the top four seeds, Valley Center would receive a
first-round bye.

The Jaguars will also go into the postseason with the section's
leading rusher in senior Travis Bernard, who racked up 198 yards on
18 carries against the Patriots (4-6, 1-3). Bernard became the 12th
player from a North County school to surpass 2,000 yards rushing
for a season, and he wasted little time reaching the milestone. His
sixth carry of the night resulted in an 84-yard touchdown run that
propelled him well over the 2,000-yard mark and sparked a 28-point
first quarter for the Jags. Berrnard finished with 178 first-half
yards on just 14 carries, including additional scoring runs of 3
and 29 yards.

"Two thousand yards was one of the personal goals I was shooting
for," said Bernard, who has 2,098 yards and 27 touchdowns for the
season. "I have to thank my O-line, they put everything on the
line. And I have to thank my quarterback for handing me the
ball."

The offensive line of Stehly Reden, Skyler Johnsen, Dan
Brunskill, Tomas Wheeler, Luis Rios and Jean Brierre paved the way
for 335 yards rushing against the Patriots. Quarterback, Beau
Reilly started the scoring onslaught with a 25-yard TD run barely
three minutes into the game and added three touchdown passes. He
completed 7-of-10 pass attempts for 196 yards.

The hosts rolled up 244 yards rushing in the first half while
the Jaguars' defense limited Orange Glen to just eight total yards
of offense on 24 plays.

For the game, Valley Center outgained the Patriots in total
yards, 531-55, while limiting the Pats to just four first
downs.

"We ran into a great football team tonight," said Patriots coach
Kris Plash. "Their kids are well coached, they play extra hard and
they are physical. They ran through us, offensively and
defensively.

"Our challenge as coaches is to get our kids to play at that
championship level."

Plash said he hopes the Patriots can land a spot in the Division
II playoffs at Saturday's CIF seeding meeting.

"I'm assuming we can get an 11 or a 12 seed," said Plash.

Valley Center's Taylor Oshinski scored a pair of first-half
touchdowns, one on offense and another on defense, just 70 seconds
apart. He caught a 22-yard TD pass from Reilly with 10 seconds
remaining in the first period, and on Orange Glen's third play
following the score, he intercepted a pass by Miles Godfrey and
returned it 40 yards down the sideline for another TD after making
his first start of the season at safety.

"We came out slow against Del Norte last week, so we knew we had
to come out with a fire ...," said Oshinski, who added a 25-yard TD
catch in the second half, which was played under a running
clock.

Valley Center, rated No. 1 in the Southern California Division
III rankings by Cal-Hi Sports and No. 4 in the San Diego Section,
capped off its first unblemished regular season. The 2004 Jaguars,
the first of the school's four section champions, finished with two
ties during an 11-0-2 campaign.

Orange Glen won the first game of the series after Valley Center
opened for the 1998-99 school year, but the Jaguars have prevailed
since, extending their win streak against the Patriots to 12 games.
In their last five meetings, Valley Center has outscored Orange
Glen 234-21.